Macrium recovery media - network drivers

BrianInEngland · Mar 4, 2023

I notice when booting from Macrium recovery media, lots of Network and wi-fi drivers are loaded during startup.

As all my backups are on local disks, do I need these drivers?
Is there a way to remove or prevent loading of the drivers assuming I don't need them?
Loading the drivers takes a bit of time when booting the media

cereberus · Mar 4, 2023

BrianInEngland said:
I notice when booting from Macrium recovery media, lots of Network and wi-fi drivers are loaded during startup.

As all my backups are on local disks, do I need these drivers?
Is there a way to remove or prevent loading of the drivers assuming I don't need them?
Loading the drivers takes a bit of time when booting the media

Unfortunately no - this is a request that has been made on the Macrium Forum Wish List.

You can speed things up a bit by not including wifi drivers when creating Rescue drive (only applies to WinRE as WinPE does not support wifi anyway).

Click advanced button, make sure wifi support button is not checked.

It irritates me as well!

BrianInEngland · Mar 4, 2023

cereberus said:
Unfortunately no - this is a request that has been made on the Macrium Forum Wish List.

You can speed things up a bit by not including wifi drivers when creating Rescue drive (only applies to WinRE as WinPE does not support wifi anyway).

That's a shame, thanks for the response

BrianInEngland · Mar 4, 2023

cereberus said:
Unfortunately no - this is a request that has been made on the Macrium Forum Wish List.

You can speed things up a bit by not including wifi drivers when creating Rescue drive (only applies to WinRE as WinPE does not support wifi anyway).

Click advanced button, make sure wifi support button is not checked.

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It irritates me as well!

Would be better if networking support was a selectable option too